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Re: Pshychoanalysis anyone?

Re: Pshychoanalysis anyone?2011-10-30T14:10:54+00:00
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KrazyKat, in January of this year, I talked to my therapist (psychologist) about ADHD, how I’d read the book on ADHD and its Effect on Marriage and how I thought I had it (my husband thought I did), and was he familiar with it or could he prescribe meds (knowing the terrible relationship with my GP). He said no, he wasn’t familiar and he couldn’t prescribe meds (only psychiatrists can). But he did write a letter to my GP saying that he had seen consistent symptoms that could be ADHD, and that he supported a physician-supervised trial of meds. My GP received but never read the letter 👿 and it’s been a challenge getting her to take me seriously instead of viewing me as a person seeking performance-enhancing drugs.

My therapist says that if you need a crutch, you should use it. Therapy and behavioural techniques can only go so far, and meds are supportive. So I am big on getting a proper diagnosis. I don’t want to take meds either but it seems that I need them.

My therapist was quite surprised when I came back with a diagnosis of narcolepsy, and I told him about the study of severely fragmently sleep with mice and the memory issues (terrible sentence structure, sorry, not my forte), and how the diagnosis explained a lot. We had backed completely off a lot of the practices that we were doing before I had my worst bout back in April, and now we are pretty much starting afresh with this new information, trying to get some stability before starting to work again. I am glad to have him available to me, and right now, I can’t see myself stopping our meetings since they are so useful to me.

Many people start the mindfulness training later in life, I did too, only back in 2003. It’s never too late to start.

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